Valdi has extensive appellate experience. He has argued before New York State'shighest court, the Court of Appeals in Albany, and practiced before the UnitedStates Supreme Court. Valdi has litigated employment matters before federal andstate courts, and has arbitrated and mediated cases before the NASD, the AmericanArbitration Association, FINRA, JAMS and the Equal Employment OpportunityCommission.

Valdi has also been invited to serve as pro bono counsel inemployment mediation matters by the United States Court for the Southern Districtof New York. Valdi co-authored an article published for the New York LawJournal on retaliatory lawsuits by employers.

Prior to joining the Vladeck firm, Valdi was a member of the Special Litigationand Appeals Unit of the Mental Hygiene Legal Service for the Appellate Division,Second Department, representing the disabled in civil rights matters. He alsoserved as a law clerk to the Honorable Lois Bloom, United States Magistrate Judgefor the Eastern District of New York.

Valdi received his B.A. (1989), with honors, and M.A. (1991), cum laude, from theNew York Institute of Technology and his law degree from Brooklyn Law School(1995). He is admitted to practice before the United States Supreme Court, theSecond Circuit Court of Appeals, the United States Courts for the Southern andEastern Districts of New York, and the New York State courts.